[SBB] Some recent birds

["Garth Harwood" <[[email protected]]>]

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Hi All,

On Friday 6/23/2006 I was checking nestboxes at Foothills Park in Palo Alto
when I had a good look at a flyover male Lawrence's Goldfinch near the fire
station/water tank. Also singing at the beginning of the fire station road
was a Lazuli Bunting at a fairly low elevation for this point of the season.
Two groups of Blue-gray Gnatcatchers were carrying food to fledged young,
one just outside the main gate, and another at the beginning of the fire
station access road. At least 2 clutches of Western Bluebirds fledged young
at the park this week, as did 2 families of Ash-throated Flycatchers.

I had started the day with a brief visit to the little pond at Monte Bello's
gate 5. There, I also had a flyover Lawrence's Goldfinch, and a Nuttall's
Woodpecker was quite unusual for the immediate area.

On Tuesday 6/20 I revisited the hilltop southeast from Hoseshoe Lake at
Skyline Ridge OSP. SCL birds included two Chipping Sparrows singing on the
northeast side of Skyline Blvd. among the Xmas trees there, and still
another flyover Lawrence's Goldfinch (not actually observed in SCL, but
heading that way and very close to it.) So I guess that species must be
nesting at various points in the NW of the county this summer. Other birds
(in SM County) included the singing Hermit Warbler, Cassin's Vireo, Western
tanager, and Black-throated Gray Warbler, all of which had also showed up on
the Palo Alto Summer Count on 6/3.

Good luck everyone,

Garth Harwood

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